AA A(move A shape from down a fret back) ADDAEEA (riff 2x) ADGDGDA (riff 2x)
AE
This is the age of machinery, a mechanical nightmare
AA wonderful world of technology
DGDA (riff)
Napalm, hydrogen bomb, biological warfare
AE
This is the twentieth century, too much aggrevation
A
It's the age of insanity
DGDA (riff)
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jeruselem?
AGGAGG
Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned
D (no chord) A(riff)
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna be here
ADGDGDA (riff)
AGG#A
My momma says she can't understand me
E
Can't see me motivation
A
Just give me some security
DGDA (riff)
I'm a paranoid schitzoid product of the 20th century
AGG#A
You keep all your smart modern writers
E
Give me William Shakesphere
A
You keep all your smart modern painters
DGDA (riff)
I'll take Rembrant, Titian, DeVinci and Gainsborough
AGG#AG
Girl, we gotta get out of here, we gotta find a solution
D (no chord) A(riff)
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna die here
AGG#AG
Well, we gotta get outta here, we've gotta find a solution
D (no chord) A
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want, don't wanna be here
Bridge:
EmA5EmGG/F#Em
I was born in a welfare state, ruled by bureaucracy
DAmCC/BA5
Controlled by civil servants and people dressed in grey
A5AmA5GG/F#Em
Got no privacy, got no liberty
DA5CC/BA (riff)
Cos the twentieth century people took it all away from me
RIFF #2 FOUR TIMES
A (no chord) GDA
Don't wanna get myself shot down
(no chord) GDA
By some trigger happy policeman
(no chord) GD
Gotta keep a hold of my sanity
DFCGA
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here
RIFF #2 FOUR TIMES
(no chord) GDA
My mama says she can't understand me
(no chord) GDA
Can't see my motivation
(no chord) GD
Ain't got no security
DFCGA
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here
RIFF #2 (repeat ...)
I don't want twentieth century man, I don't want twentieth century man
I don't want twentieth century man, I don't want twentieth century man
AGDA
This is the twentieth century
GDA
Too much aggrevation
GD
This is the age of insanity
DFCGA
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here
RIFF:
'A' chord
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-------------------3-3-3-2--
-------------------2-2-2-2-- repeat
-------------------4-4-4-2--
----0-5p0-5p0---0-----------
--------------0-------------
RIFF #2:
AGG/F#Em
------------------------------------
----3-3-2---------0------0----------
----2-2-2---------0------0----------
----4-4-2---0---0------0------0-----
--0-------0-------------------------
--------------3------2------0-------
NOTE: Pick notes on the Bridge, strum all other times. The riffs are
approximate, to give the general idea. The Bridge has been altered a bit
to make it sound better for guitar. This is the way the song goes in my
mind.
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